The twenty-eighth day of the lunar month.

"Whew"

A tragic pig cry resounded through Xujia Village, and the pig cry lasted for more than a minute before gradually disappearing.

Chen Yunsheng pulled out the blood-dripping pig-killing knife, looked at the big black pig lying on the board and was dying, a smile appeared on his face, and he raised his head, "Thank you, big guy, let it go, this beast can't turn over the wind and waves." ”

Lai Shun spat a mouthful of saliva to the side, first washed his hands with hot water, then lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, smacking his tongue: "Tsk, you big black pig, I don't think it will be less than two hundred and fifty catties." ”

Chen Yunsheng laughed, "It's not bad, who knows how much blood will be after it is released." ”

Hu Xingwang quipped: "Fifth brother, just now the branch secretary said that it was your big black pig, why did you agree?" ”

Chen Yunsheng was stunned for a moment, raised the blood-dripping pig-killing knife in his hand, and looked at him with a smile, "Xingwang, why don't I stab you in the neck?" ”

"Don't worry, it doesn't hurt, it's fast."

Hu Xingwang begged for mercy and stood two steps away, looked at the winding village road outside the courtyard, and sighed, "I don't know if Brother Fugui will come back." ”

Chen Yunsheng also wrinkled, looking at the dead big black pig, "Come to Shun, can Fugui come back today?" My pig was going to be killed on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, so I wanted to wait for Fugui to come back. ”

Lai Shun scratched the back of his head, flicked the cigarette ash again, and spread his hands innocently, "I don't know wow, my brother didn't write a letter back." ”

"Then he has to come back for the New Year, right?"

Lai Shun shook his head, "I don't know." ”

Everyone rolled their eyes in unison, took the air conditioner, and returned to the house to chat around the brazier, while Chen Yunsheng rolled up his sleeves and took care of the pig's hair.

Chen Yunsheng has a lot of family members, all of whom are here to eat pig-killing rice, Cui Ping walked out of the stove room, glanced around, and shouted: "Come to Shun, what about celebrating them?" ”

Lai Shun also looked around, and said unconcernedly: "Let's go to the village entrance and set off firecrackers." ”

Lai Shun guessed correctly, the children in the village gathered at the entrance of the village at this time and happily set off firecrackers together.

"Feng Xia, would it be good to give me another firecracker, just one." White Widow's daughter, Xiaoshuang stood in front of Feng Xia, clasped her hands together and begged.

It's funny to say, obviously Xiaoshuang is half a year older than Feng Xia, but he is half a head shorter than Feng Xia.

Feng Xia pretended to think for a while, "Okay." Then he took out a firecracker and handed it to her.

"Fengxia, you are so good, I will do whatever you say in the future, I will only listen to you." Xiaoshuang said with an oath.

The other children also ran over and surrounded her, begging Feng Xia bitterly, Feng Xia gave one by herself, and immediately received a voice of loyalty.

Feng Xia listened to the sound of firecrackers exploding, jumped up happily and watched, her little face flushed with excitement.

She is wearing a bright red cotton jacket today, her hair is combed into two small braids, and she wears a red scarf around her neck, which looks particularly cute, and her clean and delicate clothes are very different from other children.

Feng Xia threw a few firecrackers herself, and then suddenly remembered something, stood on her tiptoes and looked, and found Youqing squatting on the ridge alone.

Youqing is also wearing a bright red cotton jacket and a white felt hat on his head, which looks small.

There was also a big yellow dog squatting at his feet, and his tail was shaking rapidly, which was Ping'an.

She ran over and shouted, "Youqing, Youqing." ”

Youqing glanced up at her, stood up and waited for her to come.

"Youqing, what are you squatting here to look at? Come and play with firecrackers. ”

As she spoke, Feng Xia looked at the paddy field, the surface of which was covered with a thin layer of ice, giving rise to the idea of walking on the ice.

She pointed to the ice on the surface of the paddy field and said seriously: "Youqing, do you want to play this?" But my mother said that she wouldn't let us play, because we would get cold. ”

Youqing shook his head and didn't speak sullenly.

Feng Xia was much taller than him, hugged him gently, and said softly: "Youqing, aren't you happy?" ”

Youqing looked at the winding path at the entrance of the village, "Sister, when will Dad come back?" ”

When Feng Xia heard this, her expression became lost, but she still patted Youqing's back comfortingly, "Mother said, Dad will come back for the New Year." ”

"But now it's the New Year, why hasn't my father come back?"

Feng Xia shook her head, "It's not the New Year, it's Chinese New Year's Eve the New Year." ”

Youqing raised his head, "Sister, you are lying, I asked Grandpa Changgen, and he said that it is the New Year, sister, shall we go to find Dad?" I have money, let's go buy train tickets. ”

Feng Xia looked at Youqing's red eyes, opened her mouth, and couldn't help crying, "I miss my father too." ”

"Fengxia, Youqing, why are you crying?" When the other children found out about them, they hurriedly came over and asked with concern.

They raised their little fists, one by one with long snot, and their little faces were red from the cold, "You say, who bullied you, we will help you beat him." ”

Youqing looked at them, pouted and asked, "Do you know when my father will come back?" ”

They look at me, I look at you, for the sake of it: "Youqing, didn't you ask us before, we don't know, and our parents don't know." ”

Youqing suddenly cried, Feng Xia couldn't help crying, and these children also cried when they saw them crying.

For a while, the entrance of the village was full of children's crying, and some adults heard the crying and came to ask them why they were crying.

"Youqing cried, and we want to cry too."

The adults asked Youqing why he was crying, and the village children said that he missed his father.

The adults thought about it and told them not to cry, because the New Year's was unlucky, and when they couldn't comfort it, they turned around and went back to the village, ready to tell Jiazhen.

"Wang!"

Youqing was still crying, but suddenly heard a cry from Ping'an, opened his eyes and saw it standing up, staring directly at the winding path leading to the village, and its tail wagging fast!

He was about to hug Ping'an, but Ping'an suddenly barked a few times, and then ran excitedly towards the outside of the village as if he had determined something.

"Peace, peace!"

didn't care about continuing to cry, Feng Xia and Youqing hurriedly chased after Ping'an.

Along the winding path and turning a pond, the two saw Ping An excitedly circling around a big man in an army-green coat, wagging his tail flatteringly.

They looked at the man with two large wicker boxes in front of them, froze in place, and rubbed their eyes in disbelief.

Xu Fugui was also stunned, then pulled the black scarf on his face down, put down the two boxes, squatted down and spread his hands, "Fengxia, Youqing, come over and let Dad hug you!" ”

"Daddy!"

Only then did the two of them come back to their senses, shouted in surprise, rushed over in unison, and threw themselves into his arms.

Feeling the familiar thick and firm chests, they wailed and cried, "Woo woo, Dad, you are back, we have been waiting for you for a long time, and Grandpa lied to us that you are not coming back."

(End of chapter)